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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (370)	6/5/2005 10:21:05 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541319

It is clearly impossible to have a polite, moderate discussion about political issues when the bombthrowers on the left and right are given free rein. As someone noted - was it you? - someone can be an ideologue without being intolerant and offensive. Sadly, that is not true for most ideologues on SI. What used the be the "Moderate Forum" on SI is now just another "Impeach Bush Now!" thread. The rightwing threads thrive on constantly belittling anyone who doesn't follow their orthodoxy. Yes, I will limit diversity here in the name of civility. I am not impinging on the bashers' right to post on dozens of other threads to their heart's delight. It's the only way I see to have a space where non-partisan views can be exchanged without constant ideological bombardment from elsewhere. If anyone here can stand behind a partisan ideology without demeaning and disrespecting other points of view, they certainly won't get banned. It would be a nice change. (The other factor is that most ideologies depend on logically faulted arguments like I outlined in my "10 Things" post a while back. I'm not interested in POV's that proclaim their virtue by dishonestly and incompetently "discrediting" others.)